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With an eye for adventurous silhouettes and a penchant for bold, bright color, Joy Sunday is quickly becoming one of the more exciting red carpet stars of her generation. Best known for her role as Bianca Barclay in the hit Netflix series, Wednesday, Sunday brings a theatrical element to the step and repeat, but never…
The modern media landscape has undoubtedly changed since the original The Devil Wears Prada nearly 20 years ago. The film was set among the “old guard” of fashion and media—one that feels faraway now with the change that the internet has wrought. And thanks to social media, paparazzi, and filming on the streets of New…
Italy’s competition regulator, Autorità Garante della Concorrenza e del Mercato (AGCM), imposed a €1 million fine on fast fashion company Shein on Monday for publishing misleading environmental claims related to the amount of pollution the company produces. The AGCM investigation found that Shein made false claims about the recyclability of its clothing and that there…
Physical store sales in discretionary categories were up just 0.8% last month although online sales rose a healthy 8.3% year on year, the latest High Street Sales Tracker from accountancy and business advisory firm BDO showed on Friday. Asos And total like-for-like retail sales (combining in-store and online) grew by just 2.8% in July, compared…
On June 13, a seemingly modest retail moment at Nanjing’s Deji Plaza offered a revealing glimpse into the evolving dynamics of China’s fashion market. Marius and Unica — two womenswear brands born on Taobao and known for their savvy digital strategies — launched their first brick-and-mortar stores at China’s highest-grossing mall. Within 10 days, Marius…
Ugo Mozie had been working in the fashion industry for nearly a decade when he stumbled upon a life-changing family lore. At 25, the Nigerian American celebrity fashion stylist, turned fashion PR director, turned designer of the recently launched fashion brand Eleven Sixteen, discovered that his family tree was rich with a lineage of successful…
Virtual model wearing different three different outfits promoting three different skincare products. ChatGPT Fashion modeling faces significant technological disruption as AI platforms expand beyond basic model generation into comprehensive content creation systems. Precedence Research projects the AI fashion market will reach $60 billion by 2034, with annual growth rates of nearly 40%. The transformation happening…
Fashion manufacturer Capelli New York is staying put at its offices across the street from the Empire State Building. Capelli, which designs and produces label and branded clothing products, has renewed its 39,081 square feet on the eighth, ninth and 10th floors of the Rosen family’s 1 East 33rd Street, according to a release from…
The philanthropist and businessperson Hilary Weston has died, according to Canadian media reports. She was 83. Born in Dublin, Ireland in 1942, Weston began her career as a fashion model to support her widowed mother and younger siblings. She moved to Toronto in 1971 and worked in the fashion industry for over two decades. She…
Like many of my fellow millennials, Samantha Jones and her infamous Fendi Baguette knockoff on “Sex & The City” was my first encounter with bootleg fashion. I was only 13 when the episode aired and at that time in my life the concept of owning a designer handbag, let alone a counterfeit version, was all…